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J. MORRISON.

NUT LOCK Patented July 7,1891.

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JOSEPH MORRISON, OF WINDSOR, CANADA.

NUT-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 455,347, dated July 7,1891.

Application tiled January 14, 1891. Serial No. 377,719. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH MORRISON, a citizen of Canada, residing atVindsor, in the county of Essex, in the Province of Ontario, Canada,have invented a new and useful Nut-Lock, of which the following is aspecification.

Y This invention relates to an improvement in nutlocks; and it consistsinthe peculiar construction, arrangement, and combinations of partshereinafter more particularly described, and then definitely claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide a nut-lock that will not onlybe effective in locking, but will provide a greater adj ustability thansimilar locks now in use.

In the accompanying` drawings, Figure lis a yside elevation of myimproved nut-lock with the nut and lock shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 isa vertical central. section of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view ofthe nut detached.

Referring now to the details of the drawings, A represents a boltprovided immediately below its head with a left-hand thread B, and aportion at its other end is made smaller in diameter, and on thisreduced por-V tion is a right-hand thread O.

D is a nut provided with a cylindrical ex tension d, projecting from theupper side of said nut and in line with the hole in it. In the upperpart of this cylindrical extension is a thread d', corresponding to andmade to lit the enlarged thread Bon the bolt A.

E is an ordinary nut constructed to iit the thread on the reducedportion of the bolt A, and adapted to act as a jam-nut to lock the nutD.

VThe operation of my nut-lock is as follows: After the bolt A has beenplaced in its position the nut D is placed on the bolt A and screwedhome. When the nut D is as tight as possible, the nutE is placed on thesmaller i end of the bolt A and turned in the opposite direction fromthat in which the nut D was turned until it fits tight up against thesaid much better advantage than Where two ordinary nuts are used on4right and left hand threads. It will also be evident that the eX-tension ofthe nut D serves to aid or strengthen the bolt.

I have shown the blank nut D and its eX- tension in one piece; but Isometimes make the extension of a tube and set the same firmly in ablank nut, as shown in dotted linesin Fig. 3. I sometimes make thethread near the head of the bolt much shorter where the bolt is intendedto be usedin places where the matter to be bolted together is ofsubstantially uniform size-as, for instance, in railroad chairs andsplices.

What I claim as new isl l. The combination, with a bolt having a threadnear its head and another one near its opposite end, of a nut having anextension fitting said thread near the head and constructed to enter theobject being bolted, thus aiding in strengthening the bolt, and anothernut'tting the thread on the opposite end, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a bolt having a thread near its head andanotherone nearits Opposite end, said threads being cut in Oppositedirections, of a nut having an 'extension fitting said thread near thehead and constructed to enter the object beingbolted, thus aiding instrengthening the bolt, and another nut tittin g the thread on theopposite end, substantially as described.

JOSEPH MORRISON.

Vitnesses:

E. I. ScULLy, T. E. ROBERTSON.

